The not-so-dirty not-so-secret about companies at small scales is that the amount of works look infinite because the amount of things you *could* do is, strictly, infinite, but of your current portfolio of things you could drop 40~80% without any material impact.https://twitter.com/hnshah/status/1170203892199522304 …
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(I was as guilty of this as anyone, since I immensely enjoy a lot of the quotidian mechanics of business processes, like applying for insurance. To misquote a comic book movie: “And what is your business, the business of applying for insurance coverage?”
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How do you avoid this? What's the best way to confirm you're moving the business forward?
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That seems like it’d be “mission driven” because the qualities that can move forward are varied and vast. Most seem to use some sort of revenue algorithm? We’ve been thinking quite a bit about measuring/proving user outcomes. What is their definition of success not ours.
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You can't optimize all the things (and as engineers the inclination is to do so). However lots of systems stuff just has to be done as you grow a small company. And if you have no $, that comes out of your time. Frustrating but better than not needing to scale :)
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